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  • EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3
  • Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance
  • IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3

In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel version. That pull is se...

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phoronix.com /1 week ago

Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance

Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further

As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs

Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel release expected on Sunday, a new release of the exFAT file-system user-space programs was released overnight...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3

Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system...

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phoronix.com /1 week ago

F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3

Coming in as a late pull request ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window closing this weekend were the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates that have now made it into Linux Git...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3

The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System

The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submissio...

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omgubuntu.co.uk /3 weeks ago

Linux 7.2 brings cache-aware scheduling, faster ext4 and Btrfs

Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A...

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phoronix.com /3 weeks ago

Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins

David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3

With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new B...

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phoronix.com /2 weeks ago

Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements

The Linux kernel's FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...

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